Craig Venter Quotes

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Craig Venter

Profession : Scientist

Birth : October 14, 1946

I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

Craig Venter

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion.

Craig Venter

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

Craig Venter

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

Craig Venter

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

Craig Venter

Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.

Craig Venter

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.

Craig Venter

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.

Craig Venter

Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Craig Venter

My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career.

Craig Venter

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Craig Venter

Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

Craig Venter

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

Craig Venter

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.

Craig Venter

For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.

Craig Venter

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

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We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.

Craig Venter

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Craig Venter

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

Craig Venter